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<h2>Overview</h2>
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This Google app provides a JSON interface to <a href="http://www.tictocs.ac.uk/">ticTOCs Journal Tables of Contents service</a>,
based on the data set provided <a href="http://www.tictocs.ac.uk/text.php">here.</a>
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<h2>Usage as widgets</h2>
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See <a href="http://libx.lib.vt.edu/services/majax2/talk/IUG%202009%20-%20Web%20Services%20&%20HTML%20Widgets%20for%20the%20WebOPAC.ppt">Annette's IUG 2009 talk</a>
for details on how to use MAJAX 2, tictoclookup, and Google Book classes, particularly in the III Millennium OPAC.
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<h2>Usage as a web service</h2>
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This service allows querying by ISSN.  In addition, a Title may be provided to disambiguate 
in cases where multiple feeds are offered for the same ISSN.
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<p>Examples:</p>
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<b>Basic ISSN search:</b> <br />
<a href="http://tictoclookup.appspot.com/0028-0836">http://tictoclookup.appspot.com/0028-0836</a>
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{"lastmod": "Wed Apr 29 05:42:36 2009", 
 "records": [
    {"title": "Nature AOP", "rssfeed": "http:\/\/www.nature.com\/nature\/journal\/vaop\/ncurrent\/rss.rdf"}, 
    {"title": "Nature", "rssfeed": "http:\/\/www.nature.com\/nature\/current_issue\/rss"}
 ], 
 "issn": "00280836"}
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<b>Use of title= attribute:</b> <br />
<a href="http://tictoclookup.appspot.com/0028-0836?title=Nature">http://tictoclookup.appspot.com/0028-0836?title=Nature</a>
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{"lastmod": "Wed Apr 29 05:42:36 2009", 
 "records": [
     {"title": "Nature", "rssfeed": "http:\/\/www.nature.com\/nature\/current_issue\/rss"}
 ], 
 "issn": "00280836"}
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<b>Use of jsoncallback attribute:</b> <br />
<a href="http://tictoclookup.appspot.com/0028-0836?title=Nature&amp;jsoncallback=process">http://tictoclookup.appspot.com/0028-0836?title=Nature&amp;jsoncallback=process</a>
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process({"lastmod": "Wed Apr 29 05:42:36 2009", 
         "records": [
           {"title": "Nature", "rssfeed": "http:\/\/www.nature.com\/nature\/current_issue\/rss"}
         ], 
         "issn": "00280836"})
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<b>Example with unknown ISSN (no search results):</b> <br />
<a href="http://tictoclookup.appspot.com/0028-083X">http://tictoclookup.appspot.com/0028-083X</a>
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{"lastmod": "Wed Apr 29 05:42:36 2009", "records": [], "issn": "0028083X"}
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<i>Written by Godmar Back &lt;libx.org@gmail.com&gt;</i>
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